About the Author

Mariko Tamaki is a writer of comics and young adult novels. Her
books include the graphic novels Skim and This One
Summer with Jillian Tamaki, and Emiko Superstar with
Steve Rolston. Her upcoming works include a YA novel, Saving
Montgomery Sole, and a comic about teen lez heartbreak. Jillian
Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist. She is the co-creator
of Skim and This One Summer, and the author of
SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless (2017). She
has taught comics and illustration in New York City at SVA and The
New School. She lives in Toronto. jilliantamaki.com

Reviews

"*This book is poignant and melancholy, and it will be swiftly
recognizable to those who only recently hovered at the cusp of
adolesence." --BCCB, STARRED REVIEW "*This captivating
graphic novel presents a fully realized picture of a particular
time in a young girl's life, an in-between summer filled with
yearning and a sense of ephemerality." --School Library Journal,
STARRED REVIEW "*A summer of family drama, secrets and
change in a small beach town . . . Keenly observed and gorgeously
illustrated - a triumph." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
"*With a light touch, the Tamakis capture the struggle of growing
up in a patchwork of summer moments . . . Wistful, touching, and
perfectly bittersweet." --Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

If I worked at a bookstore, I'd be hand-selling it to customers who
adored Raina Telgemeier's graphic memoir Smile but are now
ready for more complex themes...This is a lovely book. --The New
York Times

[This One Summer] manages to evoke the nuances, the
confusions, of a pair of characters on the cusp. --Los Angeles
Times

"Mariko's strengths as awriter lie in her subtlety and her ability
to convey whole worlds of feelingwithin a few lines of dialogue."
--National Post "I loved it." --Craig Thompson "Jillian's
art is simply gorgeous, and the perfect companion to the
beautiful--and sometimes painful--truth behind Mariko's every
word." --Stephanie Perkins "This One Summer is so vivid and
beautifully told, that I saw, heard, and felt every moment.
This tender and oh-so-true story of one girl's pivotal summer is a
stand-out." --Deb Caletti "A rare treasure of a book, like a summer
caught and pressed between the pages." --Svetlana Chmakova "I read
this in July, and spent the rest of the summer thinking about it.
Every bike on a dusty road and gleefully swimming kid made me think
about this book, and how it so eloquently and perfectly captures
the feeling of summer-- slow, lazy and somehow hectic and
astounding and full-- that we spend every year after the age of 18
trying to remember. " --Lucy Knisley "This One Summer is a
precisely written, exquisitely illustrated exploration of the
moment when childhood tips over into adolescence. For the second
time the Tamakis have raised the bar for young adult comics."
--Hope Larson "The most beautiful thing I've ever seen." --Faith
Erin Hicks "This One Summer is a beautiful, relatable story
of that summer everyone has had, where things happen around you but
nothing happens to you." --Julie Halpern "Read this and
remember that time. Read this and feel the innocence and the
intimate, wrestling out at the beach. Read this and keep it like a
secret, or let it run wild like a bonfire night. Read this for the
joy and the grit, the tears and the sunburn, what you can't
remember and what you'll never forget. Read This One Summer
and swear you were there." --Daniel Handler